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...(A) The department of medicaid shall conduct a desk review of each cost report it receives under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code. Based on the desk review, the department shall make a preliminary determination of whether the reported costs are allowable costs. The department shall notify each nursing facility provider of whether any of the reported costs are preliminarily determined not to be al...

...s not pass the risk analysis tolerance factors. (B) Audits shall be conducted by auditors under contract with the department, auditors working for firms under contract with the department, or auditors employed by the department. The department may establish a contract for the auditing of nursing facilities by outside firms. Each contract entered into by bidding shall be effective for one to two years. (C) Th...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of medicaid shall fine the provider of a nursing facility if the report of an audit conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code regarding a cost report for the nursing facility includes either of the following: (1) Adverse findings that exceed three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report; (2) Adverse f...

... a low occupancy nursing facility, subtract from the sum determined under division (C) of this section the nursing facility's low occupancy deduction determined under section 5165.23 of the Revised Code.

...d to reflect the new nursing facility's actual semiannual average case-mix score determined under section 5165.192 of the Revised Code after the new nursing facility submits its first two quarterly assessment data that qualify for use in calculating a case-mix score in accordance with rules authorized by section 5165.192 of the Revised Code. If the new nursing facility's quarterly submissions do not qualify for use i...

...The total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for nursing facility services provided to low case-mix residents. Instead, the total rate for such nursing facility services shall be one hundred fifteen dollars per medicaid day.

...(A) The total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for nursing facility services provided by a nursing facility, or discrete unit of a nursing facility, designated by the department of medicaid as an outlier nursing facility or unit. Instead, the provider of a designated outlier nursing facility or unit shall be paid each state fiscal year a total per me...

...(A) To the extent, if any, provided for in rules authorized by this section, the total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for nursing facility services that a nursing facility not designated as an outlier nursing facility or unit provides to a resident who meets the criteria for admission to a designated outlier nursing facility or unit, as specified i...

...(A) As used in this section, "medicaid maximum allowable amount" means one hundred per cent of a nursing facility's total per medicaid day payment rate. (B) Instead of paying the total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall pay the provider of a nursing facility the lesser of the following for nursing facility services the nursing ...

...The medicaid director may establish a centers of excellence component of the medicaid program. The purpose of the centers of excellence component is to increase the efficiency and quality of nursing facility services provided to medicaid recipients with complex nursing facility service needs. The director may adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code governing the component, including rules that est...

...includes improved health outcomes as a factor in determining the payment rate. (4) Require, to the extent the director considers necessary, a medicaid recipient to obtain prior authorization for admission to a long-term acute care hospital or rehabilitation hospital as a condition of medicaid payment for long-term acute care hospital or rehabilitation hospital services. (C) The criteria established under divisi...

...icipate in the resident or family satisfaction survey performed pursuant to section 173.47 of the Revised Code. (6) The department shall hold all applications for a private room incentive payment in a pending status until the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services approves private room incentive payments and the department determines a facility is qualified for the payment. An application in pend...

...g the greater of the nursing facility's actual inpatient days for the applicable calendar year or the inpatient days the nursing facility would have had for the applicable calendar year if its occupancy rate had been ninety per cent; (b) Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, identify which nursing facility in the peer group is at the twenty-fifth percentile of the rate for ancillary and support costs for the...

... the greater of each nursing facility's actual inpatient days for the applicable calendar year or the inpatient days the nursing facility would have had for the applicable calendar year if its occupancy rate had been one hundred per cent; (b) Exclude both of the following: (i) Nursing facilities that participated in the medicaid program under the same provider for less than twelve months in the applicable calenda...

...dividing each facility's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable, per diem direct care costs for the applicable calendar year by the facility's annual average case-mix score determined under section 5165.192 of the Revised Code for the applicable calendar year; (b) Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, identify which nursing facility in the peer group is at the seventieth percentile of the cost per case-mix units d...

...er consistent with the "Social Security Act," section 1919(e)(5), 42 U.S.C. 1396r(e)(5), specify a resident assessment instrument to be used by nursing facility providers under this section; (B) Specify whether nursing facility providers must submit the resident assessment data to the department of medicaid; (C) Specify any resident assessment data that is excluded from the case mix calculation made under section...

...r cent less than the nursing facility's actual or assigned cost per case-mix unit for the immediately preceding calendar year. The department may use the assigned cost per case-mix unit, instead of determining the nursing facility's actual cost per case-mix unit in accordance with section 5165.19 of the Revised Code, to establish the nursing facility's rate for direct care costs for the fiscal year immediately follow...

...opriate health professionals under contract with or employed by the department. The professionals may review resident assessment forms and supporting documentation, conduct interviews, and observe residents to identify any patterns or trends of inaccurate resident assessments and resulting inaccurate case-mix scores. (B) If an exception review is conducted before the effective date of a nursing facility's rate for...

...e the nursing facility's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable tax costs paid for the applicable calendar year by the number of inpatient days the nursing facility would have had if its occupancy rate had been one hundred per cent during the applicable calendar year.

...(A) Each state fiscal year, the department of medicaid shall determine the critical access incentive payment for each nursing facility that qualifies as a critical access nursing facility. To qualify as a critical access nursing facility for a state fiscal year, a nursing facility must meet all of the following requirements: (1) The nursing facility must be located in an area that, on December 31, 2011, was design...

...uage in response to the decision of the Ohio Supreme Court in the case State ex rel. LeadingAge Ohio v. Ohio Dept. of Medicaid, Slip Opinion No. 2025-Ohio-3066 and to require the department to continue calculating and paying the quality incentive payments in the manner they were actually paid in state fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The general assembly acknowledges that the department calculated the quality incentive po...

...If a provider of a nursing facility adds or replaces one or more medicaid certified beds to or at the nursing facility, or renovates one or more of the nursing facility's beds, the medicaid payment rate for the added, replaced, or renovated beds shall be the same as the medicaid payment rate for the nursing facility's existing beds.

...If one or more medicaid-certified beds are relocated from one nursing facility to another nursing facility owned by a different person or government entity and the application for the certificate of need authorizing the relocation is filed with the director of health on or after July 1, 2005, amortization of the cost of acquiring operating rights for the relocated beds is not an allowable cost for the purpose o...

...Except as provided in section 5165.17 of the Revised Code, the costs of goods, services, and facilities, furnished to a nursing facility provider by a related party are includable in the allowable costs of the provider at the reasonable cost to the related party.

...The department of medicaid shall not reduce a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate determined under this chapter on the basis that the provider charges a lower rate to any resident who is not eligible for medicaid.